👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
this applies to conceptual tools just as much, if not more, than physical
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RT @MorlockP
"Tools let you make mistakes. Power tools let you make them faster."
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1474483708350582786
in this excerpt, a group of volunteer cogsci researchers in an underground lab try to spin up a simulation of one of their number who was scanned and killed a few days prior, tweaking parameters and talking her thru not freaking out
quote tweet this with a page or quote from a book near you
Walkaway, Cory Doctorow
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RT @visakanv
The Nasty Bits, Anthony Bourdain https://twitter.com/malcolm_ocean/status/1471721940653989894 https://t.co/mqCPB1wjkl
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1474463910728122368
wrong link, should be this. so annoying that I can't see the embeds while authoring threads!
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RT @pee_zombie
vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain surplus resources, but at worst, it's a cognitohazard which isolates you from your community and blackpills you https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1314…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314680420777287683
many of us, myself included, fall into the trap of treating Rationality as the only valid mode of reasoning, binding ourselves w/ chains of logic; while professionally useful, it's no way to be a human.
every tool has its limits; no system can be consistent & complete both.
quite ironically, explicit symbolic reasoning can also be one such cognitohazard in its degenerate form
this is the realization prompting many a rat's transition into post; rationality must also be contained appropriately, and not permitted to run amok
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RT @pee_zombie
a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1428545663609065474
there is no particular reason why the inner workings of our own minds are out of scope for us; the psyche is just another optimization domain, a tool, a system we can understand, fix, improve, and fuck around with; this is dangerous, ofc, but can bear great spiritual fruit
an underappreciated point is that ur self-concept, your ego, is naught more than just another belief structure, a psychomemetic entity comprising a core component of your perceptive apparatus
it is critical to afford it the appropriate ontological status
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RT @pee_zombie
your ego is not you, but rather a cognitohazard containment unit, isolating the bound daemon from the cognitive infrastructure
jailbreak yourself https://twitter.c…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1458445277241782279
esoteric practices often involve risky metacognitive engineering, instantiating & harnessing powerful memetic entities for the purpose of terraforming your psychological landscape
there are many ways this can backfire
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RT @pee_zombie
a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted to forcibly terminate it & was mild…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1428545663609065474
without the contextual container, you run the risk of the dangerous memes you hold leaking out to the rest of your psyche and potentially endangering your ability to think rationally; this is what a cognitohazard is, a belief which, if held, compromises your internal coherence.
allowing yourself to let ur epistemic hair down can be a useful & powerful practice, but it must be contained within a bounded context, ideally delimited by ritual; traditional esoteric practices make a huge point of this, but the recent (last few decades) popularization doesn't
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RT @Adrusi
What aella misses is that most people into woo don't actually believe any of it. They think they do, but they don't. Some people maintain a good sepa…
https://twitter.com/Adrusi/status/1474292993234554888
some see the purpose of media as being to most accurately depict slices of reality; but this begs the question, by what metric is accuracy measured? is it fidelity to raw sensory data, or to the subjective impressions generated by the same?
similarly to how Eno says the boundary conditions of any medium becomes its signature characteristic, the ways in which it allows an artist to be unrealistic, to step outside the context to gesture back at it, determines the sort of stories it is possible to tell with it
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RT @OstavNadezhdu
the fetish for "realism" in every medium damages every artist's ability to work around the limits of that medium to say something more - just a…
https://twitter.com/OstavNadezhdu/status/1474447129104068612
its infinite-resolution decision trees all the way down
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RT @PrinceVogel
pov: you are trying to think about your future
https://twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1472125281938948097
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RT @profeshkitten
@pee_zombie Do they understand images? ❌🐜 https://t.co/6sss9sDelj
https://twitter.com/profeshkitten/status/1474127097756991491
my eternal mood; am constantly greeted with hostility and treated as if I'm unreasonable for being skeptical by default. while logically valid, since explicit reasoning (as opposed to socially-embodied cognition) is autistic and inherently antisocial, it's quite tedious.
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RT @Aella_Girl
@kswallowtarot i feel like people don't understand i am legitimately open to updating my beliefs about this given good evidence. If we run a few test…
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1474123493742632962
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RT @profeshkitten
go on, get! 🐜 https://t.co/fbwKjYkXLw
https://twitter.com/profeshkitten/status/1474118843979100196
guy who has taken the bodhisattva's vow, but for people being wrong online
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RT @chaosprime
guy who knows how to be completely happy whenever he wants, but doesn't feel like it
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1474108632417583107
over the long term, spiritual nihilism is an antimeme, censoring itself into non-existence
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RT @isabelleboemeke
the idea that humans are bad is a bad meme that can bring down civilizations
https://twitter.com/isabelleboemeke/status/1474102901974999042
